Lot Essay
The Sabouroff class of Attic head vases takes its name from the janiform example now in Berlin, previously in the Sabouroff collection. Beazley (Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, pp. 1544-1545) listed 27 examples juxtaposing a satyr's head and a woman's head, presumably a maenad. Closest in style to the example presented here is ARV 11, now in Tampa, no. 8 in P.J. Russell, Ceramics & Society, Making and Marketing Ancient Greek Pottery. The neck of ARV 11 does not have the red-figured draped youths as seen on this example.